Parliamentarians from 20 countries have prompted Austria to bar Russian delegates from attending an event of the worlds largest security body later this month, in a letter seen by AFP on Thursday.The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)s parliamentary assembly is to be held in Vienna on Feb.
23-24, the 1 year anniversary of Moscows invasion of Ukraine.Parliamentarians from 15 EU countries along with Canada, Georgia, Iceland, the U.K.
and Ukraine itself have actually challenged Russias involvement at the conference, advising Austria to prohibit Moscows delegation from attending.Russia would utilize the conference to plant disinformation, phony news and hate speech, the letter sent to Austrias government stated.
The participation of the Russian parliamentarians in the Vienna session ...
would be read in Russia as its indirect legitimization and part of a go back to business as normal, it added.
Russia would find that it might attain its war intends without running the risk of ostracism, seclusion and global sanctions.
The letter noted that in 2015 the U.K.
and Poland obstructed the involvement of Russian delegates at OSCE parliamentary conferences in the two countries.Ukraines OSCE Ambassador Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk said in a statement sent out to AFP that Russia need to be rejected a chance to make a huge propagandistic show.
Austria-- where the OSCE and various other global organizations are based-- is required under worldwide law to give entry to the delegates of all OSCE taking part states, a foreign ministry spokeswoman told AFP.
This is not an Austrian invitation, but a main conference of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly ...
EU sanctions offer an exception to the entry prohibits specifically for such cases, she said.But she included entry was permitted entirely for the function of participating in the conference.
She validated Austria had actually gotten the letter.The OSCE was established in 1957 to foster relations in between the Western and Eastern blocs and the company presently has 57 members.